Larkin wouldn’t reveal what he did or said that got Miller twisted, though it definitely involved Saturday afternoon’s in-state college football game pitting No. 4 Michigan State against No. 14 Michigan in Ann Arbor.

I kind of took it too far,” Larkin admitted. “We’re not going to go back to it. I apologized to Drew for crossing the line, but he’ll get me back.” Asked if he thought that the Spartans in the room feared the Wolverines and new coach Jim Harbaugh, Larkin glanced over at Miller, who quickly said, “Don’t look at me. It’s your interview.”

The Wings’ dressing room has been buzzing all week with green-and-white and maize-and-blue trash talk between Larkin and Luke Glendening, and Miller and Abdelkader.

Miller called the 19-year-old Larkin the biggest trash talker of the four, though the rest of the team seems to be enjoying the levity it’s created on a team with so many former college athletes. There are 13 Red Wings – eight players and five coaches – who played collegiately